HMS Superb (1907)

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Bellerophon (Class Overview)
Builder:
Armstrong Elswick Works
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1906
Launched:
November 7, 1907
Keel Laid:
February 7, 1907
Commissioned:
June 9, 1909
Fate:
Scrapped in 1923.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
526'
Engines:
4 Parsons single reduction steam turbines by Wallsend
Beam:
82' 6"
Boilers:
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired)
Draft:
30' 11" max
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
18,600 std. / 22,000 full
SHP:
23,000
Speed:
20.75 knots
Crew:
793
Range:
N/A


Main Armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
10
12"/45 (305mm)
Mk X
5 twin turrets
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles)


Page revised Jan. 21, 2007